Another derivative of the great distance from the country's borders is that the submarine crew is operationally competent and ready for war at any time.

[1] Every operational mission of the submarine has a military doctor and a medic on board who have undergone special training to treat the wounded, including dealing with a multi-casualty incidents, deep under the surface of the water.

An Israeli team that went through a training period in France and the United Kingdom under British supervision was the crew for the first submarine.

A submarine of the flotilla, INS Dakkar, sunk on January 25, 1968, on its way from Britain to Israel and all 69 members of its crew perished.

In June 1982, during the operation, an Israeli Navy submarine hit a civilian ship carrying refugees, due to the suspicion that they were terrorists.

The attack targeted newly unloaded Russian-made Yakhont long-range high-performance anti-ship missiles and associated radars.